¹⁰ For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
    the cattle on a thousand hills.^(A)
11 I know all the birds of the air,^[a]
    and all that moves in the field is mine.

⁵ You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
    your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
    none can compare with you.
Were I to proclaim and tell of them,
    they would be more than can be counted.^(A)

¹ The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
    the world, and those who live in it,^(A)

²² “The Lord created me at the beginning^[a] of his work,^[b]
    the first of his acts of long ago.^(A)
23 Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.^(B)
24 When there were no depths I was brought forth,
    when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵ Before the mountains had been shaped,
    before the hills, I was brought forth,^(C)
26 when he had not yet made earth and fields^[c]
    or the world’s first bits of soil.
²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,^(D)
28 when he made firm the skies above,
    when he established the fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,^(E)
30     then I was beside him, like a master worker,^[d]
and I was daily his^[e] delight,
    playing before him always,^(F)
31 playing in his inhabited world
    and delighting in the human race.^(G)

³¹ Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wonderful works to humankind.^(A)